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The growing need for social-emotional learning Recent data has revealed a concerning increase in mental health issues among children, with diagnoses of anxiety and depression rising by 29% in ...

A mega-study of 213 school-based, universal social and emotional learning (SEL) programs involving 270,034 kindergarten through high school students showed an 11 percent increase in these skills ...

A version of this article appeared in the September 27, 2023 edition of Education Week as States Look to Social-Emotional Learning to Combat Student Misbehavior, Poor Mental Health ...

More people were talking about why it is important and how it can help kids develop. Many schools were adopting social-emotional learning programs and frameworks, weaving practices that support social ...

The Housman Institute, a research foundation focusing on emotional, cognitive, and social early learning (ECSEL), emphasizes the centrality of causal talk: “Causal talk, or CT, refers to the ...

For an initiative to have the greatest impact, systematic implementation is needed, including supporting adult SEL; embedding social-emotional behavior (SEB) supports within your multi-tiered ...

It seems to me that SEL — social and emotional learning — may be the next term to end up this way. SEL is very much in vogue right now. School leaders, teachers, parents and boards are all preoccupied ...

Carey Arensberg, a social emotional behavior specialist from Mobile, Alabama, began her care closet in 2022 Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Social-emotional learning involves teaching kids life skills that go beyond traditional book learning — for example, how to show empathy, maintain relationships and set goals. Asked how the ...